10/28/2020 3:40 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/28/2020 3:40 PM
Think about journalism that comes from a different world.
The coronavirus pandemic has created something of a hinge in history.
What will it be like from now on to practice a profession that still requires the movement as a fundamental input?
When should journalism leave the desk to be part of the sensitive and empirical experience of the facts?
What world awaits us?
What conflicts lie ahead?
What will the next wars be like?
The journalist teacher and historical chronicler Jon Lee Anderson will speak about all this this afternoon, as part of the 75th anniversary of Diario Clarín.
The invitation consists of thinking about the world that comes from the hand of global referents of politics, economics, thought and technology.
Jon Lee Anderson is undoubtedly part of this group of notables and in a dialogue with Miguel Wiñazki he will be part of this cycle of free, open and live virtual talks.
The former Spanish president, Felipe González;
the former president of Brazil, Fernando Enrique Cardoso;
the former president of Uruguay, Julio María Sanguinetti;
and the former president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos.
Also, the philosopher and star professor in Germany, Gabriel Markus.
Anderson began as a journalist in Peru in 1979, as a member of the weekly The Lima Times.
He specialized in Latin American political issues and has developed a school on how to write profiles, he made profiles of important world personalities such as Fidel Castro, Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Pinochet, Charles Taylor, Iyad Allawi, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Saddam Hussein, and Hugo Chávez.
He has written articles for the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, Harper's, Time, The Nation, Life, Le Monde, Clarín, El Espectador, among other media.
He is on the staff of The New Yorker.
"Inside the League"
, about the World Anti-Communist League, financed by the United States, and its links with the dirty war in Latin America and the formation of paramilitary gangs called death squads.
"Zones of War: Voices from the World's Slaughter Fields"
, a compilation of testimonies from five wars (co-authored with Scott Anderson).
"Guerrillas", chronicles about the insurgent movements in El Salvador, Western Sahara, Gaza, Afghanistan and Burma.
"Che Guevara: a revolutionary life"
, published in 1997, one of the most important biographies on Ernesto Guevara.
To write it, he settled in Cuba between 1992 and 1995, with his wife and three children.
"The Lion's Tomb: War Reports from Afghanistan"
, published in 2002, about the 2001 War in Afghanistan.
"The Fall of Baghdad"
, on the siege and attack on the capital during the Iraq War.
